Remove any trigger that produces action less than 80%…

Set your trigger signal-to-noise ratio threshold at 80% actionability minimum — remove any trigger that produces action fewer than 80% of times it fires.

When This Fires

During monthly trigger audits (Monthly trigger audit) when evaluating which triggers to keep
When you notice yourself routinely dismissing a notification or cue
When deciding whether a trigger needs recalibration (Classify trigger firings as true/false positives for one…) or removal
When designing new triggers — set the 80% threshold as a deployment criterion

Common Failure Mode

Keeping low-actionability triggers "just in case": "I only respond to the posture reminder 30% of the time, but at least it catches me sometimes." The 30% response rate means 70% of firings train dismissal. The trigger is net negative — it's eroding your responsiveness to triggers in general, not just to this specific one. Alert fatigue spreads from one trigger to your entire trigger system.

The Protocol

(1) For each active trigger, calculate actionability rate over the past month: (times you acted) / (times it fired). (2) ≥80% → keep. The trigger is reliably producing action. (3) 50-79% → recalibrate (Classify trigger firings as true/false positives for one…, When false positives exceed 30%, add guard clauses…). Add guard clauses, adjust timing, or increase salience to reduce false positives. (4) <50% → remove or completely redesign. The trigger is training more dismissal than action. Remove it entirely, then redesign from scratch if the behavior is still desired. (5) A trigger system with 5 high-actionability triggers is far more effective than one with 15 triggers where half are ignored. Quality of triggers over quantity.